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the carolina watchman vol ix third series salisbury n c december 20 1877 no 9 â€¢ ti ui advocate . ., â€¢[-,.;,; prom bishop marvin s.i xxxiii , m m aa | a m tin barada ve approached the city that most re \ marl-able oasis in which it stands came â€¢ in full view it is about eighteen miles gquare aud i presume there is no greener g pol on tin face of the earth trees and gardens cover it with a verdure that is indescribable we saw it in the early â€ž,.,,;,," when it was at its freshest and spn â– -â€¢ a " â€¢ i the eitv stands at the foot of the moun tain i"s where the river barada - the haiia ot the scriptures enters the plain j hi is a small stream but rushing down . from ihe mountain as it does with great rapidity it delivers a large amount of â€žâ€ž;,!. so s as it eiiieigies front the ain il is tapped by canals which distribute the water in every direction ji the city . and through the plain 1 and below the city to the lagoon ,., n mile east in whicli it is lost x city could be belter supplied with wa ter the canals sometimes open sometimes running under archways be neath streets ind bouses traverse il in everv part in walking through the city often taken by sin prise coiniugupon l spot where the water rushes from under a wall and at cvei j turn you will liml foun tains in llie bazaar in tin market and in niches iu the walls of the bouses one mi of canals furnishes pure water for use while another serves fm drainage all the field and aniens in this oasis are protected by concrete fences such as i bave seen in south-western texas and made in the same way the gravel and earth air thrown together into a frame on the spot where the wall is to be made and luaien down solid with a mall upon leu spadefuls being thrown in ii is beaten down thus it becomes extremely hard ihe frame is then removed leav ingthe wall naked these fences or in ic properly wall are t wo feel . or more in thickness and live or six feel high so i fi.it in many eases the traveler on horse back can scarcely see the ground inside the mar the general beauty of the place n preatly being very clumsy and ob miiictiiig the view so hugely the population of damascus is consider ably over 100,000 but its buildings and bazaars are not what one expects there ia very lin uoa>al iu*eliit-.m-ture uoro the houses are low and nearly all rath ei shabby the bazaar coutrasts strong ly with that of cairo the one very cele brated mosque is in a poor style of an the street that is called straight is something ridiculed by superficial tourists ii i not in fact perfectly straight but is the only street in tbe city which holds a persistently straight course through from one side to the other a general course which is very direct and which the short offsets here and there do not interfere wiih it is eminently the straight sired of damascus in any city having such a system of streets or rather such a no hustom with one thoroughfare from side in side benl a lit i ie here and there but keeping a direct course throughout this very name would be most naturally given to it all the prophets and patriarchs are honored by the mussulmans you will find in damascus the mosque of the proph et solomon in fact you have to conic to this country to learn that abel and seth and almost every man whose name appears in the old testament were prophets i am told that the average arab mussulman thinks tbat abraham moses christ and mohammed all lived at the same i i me all being inspired prophets the greatest of whom was mohammed the dense ignorance even of men who seem to be intelligent in many respects in regard to religion is beyond belief there i a christian and a jewish quar \ ter of the city the christ i an population is much larger than i supposed some ol tlie leading business men an of this faith wc had been told that it would be worth while to see th inside of one or t wo dwell ings of wealthy mohammedan merchants im thai there would be no objection on thepartof the proprietors our guide 1 h<Â»wi mi assured us that it was impracti cable but that we could get admission to ' the private residences of christians moreover he assured us that the most t sidenees ef the city were tbe property of christians but it must be understood that the number of really e!e ganl houses here is very limited the ne we visited did not impress us favora : hly on the outside though we were in formed it was ihe best in the city inside ; ur found things wearing an aspect of 1 '''-' lit ll luaglliti mice that exceeded our i a i ' tatiiui we were very politely re ceived by a woman of thirty live or forty j ho was no doubl the housekeeper she i an air of good seuse and a propriety Â°' deportment that impressed us very ' av orably the master of the house was beyroot with his family we wen shown in a very magnificent drawing rpom paved wiih marble elegantly laid in mosa "'â€¢ and invited to take coffee which for vi i of time we declined nie house was of two stories and the a pper apartments were not at all iukeep jjjg with the magnificence ofjthose below i '<- rooms were small and the plain pine 1 â– "' eveu painted what a contrast ' between the part which was for use and that which was for show ! our guide took as to the house of ananias bul we did not go in the christians scarcely less ignorant than the mohammendans seem to bave no question this modern dwelling is tho very one in which the good ananias lived they will show you also the window â€” the very same window from which st paul wasletdownina basket we saw in fact a number of windows from which a man might be very well lowered over the wall and so make his escape from the city then are many houses which have the city wall for their back wall with bay windows projecting over the wall of the ciiy that ol thi house risinga story above nothing would he more inevitable than that a man's friends would let him down from such a window if he were in danger and desired to escape we saw two â€” and only two business houses of good size both of whicli were wholesale establishments and warehouses for grain and provisions they were really spacious having massive walls and each being surmounted by a rotunda having a gallery around it at the base the wooden work of the gallery had t look of age that was indeed impressive protected from the weather and subject ed to no friction it still seems to 1k wear ing out it looks as if it might date from the period when darwin's ancestors were tadpoles we noticed the same tliiig in several places among other places onr guide slowed us the slave market where jieoph come two days in the week to purchase n'ubian women it was not a market diy but we saw two of the women that wire there on sale they wen bad stock one of them being lunatic and the other aflect ing lunacy with so much skill as to keep purchasers off i was glad lo see that though they were only an expense to their owners they were evidently treated with humanity there is a large school here founded and maintained by some english ladies it seems to he doing a good work the american presbyterians have a branch of their syrian mission here so far as we had time to inquire the work seems to he faithfully done and as good a yield of fruit appears as could be expected from the agencies employed but it is only a drop iu the bucket vet the leaven will doubtless spread hi tola waving mii in l.oi-o wo rode out ta see one of the places where saul was struck down by the manifestation of thi son of god this locality is now just outside the eastern gate near tin chris tian burial ground formerly 1 under stand it was at a more distant point and in a different direction it seems to be shifted about the suit the convenience of these who make tradition a trade with very little concern about the probable di rection in whicli saul approached the city if this is the place then he came by a very roundabout way â€” one is perpetually disgusted by the absence of all reason and probability in these traditions 1 hiving spent monday in seeing the ciiy we broke ap camp on tuesday morn ing and started for baalbec â€” but before taking a final leave of what is believed by many to be tbe oldest city in the ivorld we must ascend the mountain and see it from a commanding point we soon left all vendure behind us und our horses were toiling up the steep mountain path toward the tomb of the forty apostles i"p up we climbed for near an hour from this elevated point we had the city and the entire oasis in full view the form of the city has been compared to a spoon â€” it is much more like a huge pipe with a long stem a very singular contour this is the only striking peculiarity discovered in the view except that which distin guishes this from all other cities in the world its rich emerald setting from this position there is nothing to mar the beauty of the gardens the con crete fences scarcely appearing in thedis tance it looks like a forest the trees being distributed so as to conceal the cul tivated parts everywhere the slender poplar towers above the other trees giv ing a mosl picturesque expressing to the landscape by its graceful figure and the darker and more decided hue of its foliage it was an event in a man's lift to touch upon this scene and we indulged ourselves in reverie for some time this was al ready au old city when romulus and remus were quarrelling over the mud huts of their village on the tiber when the foundations of tadmor were laid when the jebusite built his lirst rude fort on mount zion this was a center of com merce as long ago as there was any com merce when abram's affairs became so huge as to be iiiiwieldly he employed this eliezerof damascus a man trained to business here to take charge of them perhaps only babylon was as old or older but babylon is gone tadmor is gone commerce has been shifting its centers a thousand times nations have come into existence played their great tragedies on the stage and disappeared while here still i stands damascus a hundred revolutions bave been consummated within its walls it has changed masters perhaps ten hun dred times it saw the dawn of history â€” : it is likely to witness the end of time the mohammedans have a tradition to the effect that the prophet in one of his mercantile journeys approached damas cus hut on coining iu sight of it up here on tlie mountain he exclaimed that as no man could bave but one paradise be woald not forfeit that in the future by entering this so be never set foot in tbe city once be had got well inside be would have dismissed all apprehensions of tbat sort we descended the mountain on the western side and in two or three miles came to the diligence road to beyroot which followed the course of tbe barada for some miles we were to make camp to night at suk wady barada so that onr course in the main would be along the river though at oue point our dragoman insisted on leaving it for a better road this we regretted when we learned that by taking this course we missed seeing the great fountain in whicli the principal part of the waters of the lower barada come out of the mountain in a body all along this stream it is fringed with poplar and other growths and where the precipitous mountains retreat a little here and there leaving space for small valleys every foot is iu cultivation iu many places irrigating ditches are taken out and trained along the steep mountain sides so that even they are made fruitful i doubt if any one stream of the same volume in all the world nourishes as much life as this oue villages stand along in the gorge it makes in the mountain often at intervalsof only a mile or two all around them is a mass of desert mountains except those acres that are touched by the water ofthe life giving river our tent was piched in a gorge and wc had a very disagreeable night ou ac count of a fierce chilly wind here wc fell in with a party traveling under cook's auspices one of whom was dr philip schaff with whom we spent a delightful evening on our leaving his tent at !) o'clock the gray barren mountains tow ering above us on all sides took on an aspect of weird beauty in the bright moon light that seemed to me the most peculiar i had ever seen the next morning we climbed the moun tains to the right of the road about a mile from the village where we had camped to see the remains of an old roman road which at that point was cut through a mass of solid and very hard rock it was just wide enough for two chariots to pass the sides of the rock through which it was dug are perfectly perpendicular show ing even yet the tool-marks and contrast ing strikingly with the powder-blasted road beds of our time which leave the walls all left and ragged â€” at one point a space was polished and surrounded by moulding in the panel thus made is a inscription setting forth that this road was made by the emperor lucius veins at the expense ofthe people of abila so solid is this rock that the lettering is per fect to this day this was in the second century of the christian era we followed the course of the upper barada to its head passing over on to a confluent ofthe litany where we camped for the night it was difficult to tell where we passed from the waters of one stream to those of the other as there is a continuous depression between the moun tains from one to the other in the upper waters of the barada its valleys are wide and the mountains i slopes less precipitous while every availa | ble acre is in cultivation but much of it is ! sterile and will scarcely return the seed committed to it e m marvin steamer espero egean sea may 4 1s77 dixi'iving â€” the newspaper accounts ! of the results of lay evangelistic efforts ; especially ofthe results of protracted meet tings of this order are calculaed greatly to ' deceive those who read them and to cause misdirection of effort on the part of good people one paper states that as a result of a i wonderful meeting conducted by most won derful men full of the holy ghost there were â€” let us say three hundred conversions another says three hundred additions to the churches still another devotes its spare space to eulogy of the godly men whose work gives such unmistakable evidence of god's own favor in all this we hesitate not to say even at ther isk of being called a godless unco verted sinner there is a great deal of religious clap . trap editors ignorant of the facts may take it for granted that all who are called : converts unite with churches but they have no right to publish such statements without i knowing whereof they write as it is simply 1 a matter of fact that very many of the so nained converts do not unite with any church again when so many conversions are pub lished as the results of a meeting conducted oy an order of men self-constituted and i nence unknown to the church and in use i of measure novel and startling it might be i well for editors of at least religious papers : and their contributors to state what test or ' tests are adopted by which converts are dis tinguished or known let this be under stood and deception is avoided and also the harm that often follows such deception â€” kentucky presbyterian holiness confkrence â€” a " national conference to consider the subject of chris tian holiness has recently been held in cin cinnati 0 a similar conference for the eastern states is to be held in new york i city during the present month cotton factories north and south n y times iu reply to a statement to the effect that the cotton manufactories of new england had seeu their best days " and that their trade would soon be controlled by the southern states ex-gov straw of new-hampshire bas recently given ex pression to views which have excited a very warm and not uuinstructive con troversy between the leading mill-owners of the two sections in the publication referred to mr straw is represented as baring stated among other things that the cotton factories of the south could never hope to successfully compete with those of new england because the cli mate rendered it impossible for any bnt the negroes who never become good op eratives to work ten and eleven hours a day and because manufacturing could never hope to prosper in a locality iu which men and women can earn as much by working the soil as in the mill in proof of these and similar assertions be stated that the mills of georgia were not as a rule successful that only those which could supply a local demand were profi table and that many of the most exten sive enterprises had resulted in such losses that the men who had undertaken them were not able to pay for their machinery as might have been expected these as sertions have excited the people of the south to a degree which is altogcthci out of proportion to the demands ofthe occas sion it cannot be denied however that mr straw has made one or two grave blunders in regard to the conditions under whicli cotton can be and is manufactured in the southern states for instance his statement to the effect that none but ne groes can endure the work in the mills of the section named is entirely a mistake in columbus augusta gran ite ville and several other places of minor importance the white operatives nineteen out of twenty of whom are natives of the south work for ten and eleven hours a day from one year's end to the other they are contented well satisfied with the com pensation they received and ncter even talked ofa strike further than this it must bo admitted that the south has many natural advan tages for cotton manufacturing which are not possessed by the north the mills of georgia and the other southern states have an unfailing supply of water the streams that run their spindles are never frozen and up to this time they have never been seriously affected by the droughts of summer the climate is particularly adapted for the first manipu lation of the delicate raw material iu the north the air is frequently so dry that steam has to be introduced into the weav ing-rooms to keep the threads moist aud prevent them from breaking such au expedient is never necessary in the south even in midsummer the atmospher is always sufficiently humid to allow low the spinning and weaving process to goon without interruption further than this the southern mills require less gas and less fuel than their northern rivals and the original cost of their construction is invariably much smaller their owners derive still greater advantages however from the fact that they can buy the raw material at a reduced price and cau have it deliveredattheirdoorsfresh from the fields and without any charge for freight brok erage or factors commissions mr w ii young of columbus ga who is one of the best known and most reliable man ufacturers in the south estimates that on this one item alone the georgia mill proprietors as compared with those of new-england save six to eight dollars on every bale of raw material after conceding all these and many other advantages to the south however we can still find no sufficient proof of the statement made in certain quarters that the southern states will in the not far j distant future control the greater part of the trade now held by the manufacturers of new-england it cannot be denied that the cotton mills of the south have rapidly increased during the past eight or ten years or that in the majority of cases they have even in dull times made large profits there is every reason to believe that under intelligent and enterprising management this prosperity will not only continue but increase indeed it is now certain according to reliable statements j recently published that tbe southern mills will be doubled in number and capacity during the next two years but all this does uot argue that the new-england j factories must close their doors and go j out of business they still have and j will continue to have over their rivals the advantage of abundant capital the j latest improvements in machinery skill j ed labor that cannot be excelled iu the world and a situation which makes it impossible for them to deal direct ly with all the markets of this couutry and europe the mills of the south have increased and are increasing in number the same statement is also true of the north they will continue to multiply as long as they continue to find the mark ets and that they are doing daily ac cording to competent and trustworthy authority it appears that during the elev en months of the year already passed 115,338 packages of cotton goods of north , ern manufacture were exported from new york aud boston while during the same period in 1876 only 87,000 packages were sent out and iu 1875 only 44,500 there are every reason to believe that this for eign trade will continue to increase and as it is chiefly in the finer sorts of cotton goods there need be no fear of successful competition from the south tbat section will doubtless find abundant opportunity at home to dispose ofthe admirable quali ty of coarse cloths made there ; and for tbe excellent cotton blankets manufactur ed iu columbus there will doubtless con tinue to be a good market in the west the trade in shirtings sheetings and other tine goods however will naturally and for obvious reasons remain for an in definite period in the hands of the new england manufacturers daniel webster's outset in life roin harvey's webster reminiscences * * * he was studying law jn boston in the office of christopher gore after ward governor of massachusetts at that time his father was very poor and it was with great difficulty that either father ol son could make both ends meet very op portunely as the elder webster thought the clerkship of the merrimac county n ii court became vacant this office was in the appointment of the judges with whom capt webster happened to be on influential terms and was worth 2,000 a year he applied for it in behalf of his son daniel and his application was suc cessful capt webster with visions of domestic comfort rising before him joy fully sent news of his success to daniel the young lawyer student was also at first rejoiced he went to mr gore to communicate his good fortuue to his surprise that eminent lawyer at once ad vised him to decline the office i have a notion said mr gore that your mis sion is to make opinions for other men to record and not to be a clerk to record the opinions of courts finally daniel was persuaded to promise that he would refuse the clerkship the next thing was to break this decision to his poor old father the next day relates webster 1 started â€” it being a cold winter's day â€” to visit my father and break to him my de cision that was the hardest of all but my mind was made up and mr gore had inspired me with a good deal of confidence in myself he made me feel there was something in me and i started for new hampshire with that feeling 1 reached concord in the afternoon of the third day and there hired a man to carry me four teen miles in a pung to my father's where i arrived in the early evening as 1 approached the door jumped out of the sleigh and mounted the stoop or portico i looked through the window i saw a blazing tire and a nice clean paint ed hearth ; and there mas my father a venerable man seated in his chair with his white locks streaming down looking into the lire i stood and watched him with filial reverence i thought to my self how happy he is now contemplating all the good that is to come and lam go ing in to mar and dash it all away ! i went in he never greeted me more warmly how glad 1 am to see you !' he exclamed as he kissed me my mother came in and it was a jubi lee for five minutes at last supper was brought in and i wasmakingup my mind how to break this thing to my father i almost regreted the rash promise i bad made to mr gore i wished a hundred times that i could retract it then again there was something that prompted me to think that i could do better than to re cord other men's opinions my father broached the subject by say ing i think you had better ride over to judge smith's in the morning and be qualified at once i shall write to judge smith and judge farrell to-morrow i replied thank them for their favor as warmly as i know how and for their kindness and friendship for you whicli has procured me this appoint ment and while i render these thanks 1 am going to decline the office my father stood and looked at me iu amazement decline ! are you crazy ? you are jok ing â€” you are trilling xo sir i am serious mr ore none of your mr gores to me don't you talk about mr gore and said mr webster i can see j now that look of mingled anger incredu lity and pity that he wore as he said mr gore â€” telling a young fool to re fuse a good office ! â€” a silly boy that knows nothing about life â€” filling his head with some foolish fancies about what he is go ing to do when this opportunity oilers to give him all a reasonable man requires none of your mr gores to me â€” a man who is driving his coach with four horses with his livered servants who knows no thing about the struggles of life !â€” filling a young fool's head with nonsense ! you are crazy ! you vex me ! you never an noyed me so much in your life before he began to scold for the first time in his life aud i thought it was time for me to speak my father i wish to say to you that no man living uo sou appreciates more thau i do the trials you have gone through for me ; and no one could be more grateful than i i appreciate all you have done for my welfare and the sacrifices you and my mother have made but still i am now of age and am a man for myself | my education has costyou many sacrifices ! - and ought to bring you something in re j t turn you may need money : but that is : not everything we live for you your t self would be glad to 9ee your son rise to t eminence and be a man among bis fel * lows â€” which no man ever was as a clerk 1 ot a court i am more than half inclined t to think mr gore's adviee is good it t may seem otherwise just now but i feel ' a prompting within me that tells me there : is something better for me than to be a 1 clerk of courts my mind is made up ] are you fully resolved v said my * father 1 1 yes sir i am ) he did uot say another word for a long 1 time perhaps half an lrour then he went j j on : i daniel in the long struggle with pover i ty and adverse fortune that your mother 1 and i have made to give you and ezekiel 1 an education we have often talked over i tliese sacrifices and the prospects of our " children your mother has often said to i me that she had no fears about ezekiel i that he had fixed and steady habits and ' an indomitable energy she had no i doubt of his success in life but as for i daniel well she didn't know about him 1 he would be either something or nothing t i think your mother was a prophetess and 1 that the problem is solved to-night you i have fulfilled her prophecy you have come to nothing uj-that was the last time he ever meu â€¢ tinned the clerkship to me i wrote a letter to the judges declin ing the office danii'i websteu â€” law and cux.it n ixc * * * about a year and a half afterwad just before graduating i thought that before leaving hanover i would go and pay another visit to the hansons 1 found that they had improved somewhat for they now had a cow and plenty of plain homely fare i spent the night and was about to leave the next morning when hanson said to me well danile you are about to grad uate you've got through college and have got college larniii and now what are you going to do with it ?" i told him i had not decided on a pro fession â– â€¢ well said he you are a good boy your father was a kind man to me und was always kind to tbe poor i should like to do a kind turn for him and his you've got through college and people that go through college either become ministers or doctors or lawyers as for bein a minister i would never think of dour 1 that they never get paid anything doctoiin is a miserable profession they live upon other people's ailin's are up nights and have no peace and as for bein a lawyer i would never propose that to any body now said he daniel i'll tell you what ! you are a boy of parts you understand this book larniu and you are bright i knew a man who had col lege lornin down in rye where i lived when i was a boy that man was a eon jurer he could tell by consultin his books and study if a man had lost his cow when she was this was a great thing and if people lost anything they would.think nothiii of payin three or four dollars to a man like that so as to find their property there is not a con jurer within a hundred miles of this place and you are a bright boy and have got this college larnin the best thing you can do is to study that and he a conjurer ." " â€” harvey's webster reminisenccs mri.i.kifs titi k faith ami turst â€” george muller's practice of buying sup plies for his orphan house is ou t he "( '. < >. d plan and when the cash runs out in stead of going to the grocery and butcher stores and asking fot provisions on trust he goes directly to the lord he says that the children have always had their meals regularly although some limes as late as ten o'clock in the morning no means had been supplied for dinner iu such a case he tells us then we had a prayer meeting and god helped us before it was necessary to provide for dinner some times it so happened that now we had the means for dinner but we had not the means for supper then we had another prayer meeting together that cod would graciously be pleased to appear nu our be half and to help us and so he did tliese remarkable statements together with others just as extraordinary arc not from hearsay but may be found on page 2'a of his recently published addresses but lie puts a wet blanket ou the ambi tion of people who might desire to do their housekeeping in this apparently eco nomical manner by telling them that oth er christians must not imitate him in this respect and the that only way he succeeds in it is to lay his wants before the lord in the most implicit confidence that they will be relieved mr mttller says that the whole amount received by bim iu answer to prayer up to the 26th of may is 3,850 000 in cash exclusive ofa vast amount of provisions and material for clothing the expenses of conducting the various opera tions under his management are now about 620 a day a y sun blaine's recent sickness it is said has made bim look much older and greatly enfeebled him the united stares senate by a vote of 4h to 18 taken last thursday set apart to-day for the consideration of the bland silver bill those opposed to it generally favored postponing its consideration un til after the holiday recess those who wer iu favor of it were anxious to begin the discussion of it at once the vote therefore may be taken as indicative of the sense of the senate hill lamar and whyte were the only three southern senators who voted against the silver par ty ; that is in favor ofthe postponement ransom and merrimon were present and voted for early action the advocates of the bill are represented as being elated at the result of thursday's vote it cannot be denied that there is an apparent ma jority in the senate in favor ofthe meas ure the hope is indulged very freely among the silver men that a two-thirds majority will be obtained and that the bill finally passed over the threatened veto of the president the south and west are standing shoulder to shoulder in support of this bill against the nionied powers of the east should they fail of success with it their growing ascendancy in national affairs will have received its first strong check for our part we have little hope that a bill whicli does not meet the objections urged by tho president iu his message can obtain a two-thirds vote in both houses â€” hal news the russians are jubilent over the great victory at plevna and well they may be for it opens up to their gaze the beginning of an end they long have sought we doubt not that the success ofthe russian arms will eventually prove a great blessing to the world generally not even excepting the turks themselvs but in this the hour of their defeat our sympathies spontaneously go out to a people who have so long and so bravely fought against such great odds for all that men hold dear uufortunately the people of our own south-land know what are he feelings of men who having'fought to tho last ditch an then compelled to surren der to a hated foe they know what it is to stack their arms and furl their flags before a victorious enemy and march away disarmed helpless prisoners nu man who went through the agony of ap pomattox can think of plevna and the brave turks who sallied from its walls in a last desperate al tempt to cut through the russian lines without having his heart stirred to its lowest depths â€” ral c'ttjlt observer a i'<>m>iiiii.i>i.k"s wn â€¢â– '".â€¢â€¢ paktv cos tume.â€”according to the correspondence of the washington capital the wife of a new york banker appeared thi other eve ning at a party as capital the dress was covered on the skirt so as to make it ap pear one piece with one hundred nnd live hundred dollar bills the waist ami sieves were 1,000 lÂ«>uds sewed in uid her lingers and ears blazed with diamonds the tiara was said to have been worth ssi duo and the total value of the notes and diamonds on her person was 200,000 the pages carried her train and watched lest the jewels ami greenbacks should fall to the fioor there is a speck of war down in mis sissippi â€” not over the negro the outraged politicians will be sorry to hear but iu regard to some government timber stolen from the public lands the united states marshals liave been roughly handled by the woodsmen and a revenue cutter has been sent out with reinforcements from new orleans mormon propagandism â€” john taylor the new president of the mormon church has sent the follow ing order to a â€¢* brother living in nevada you are hereby or dered to start right away to the sandwich islands there to preach the gosplc of the everlasting faith hy order of tin twelve apostles training school â€” elie southern pres byterian church has established a school for the training of colored ministers at tuscaloosa alabama six candidates attended during the last session lhe gen eral synod of the reformed i dutch church has promised co-operation with the south ern presbyterians in sustaining this semi nary presbyterian fin presbyterian hoard of publication at richmond have mad an arrangement with the presbyterian publish ing company of st i mis to do their print ing for them except the papers earnest worker chiulren's friend and /.<.*Â«../, papers these an still to !;.â€¢ issued from rich mond hereafter there will in two deposi tories for the books of the committee ; one in richmond with mr 1 i ia sleight as business manager and the other at st louis witii rev a shu well as manager tohacco vs missions the following u from the methodiat a methodist clergy man mentioned tu rev m b branitz an earnest anti-tobacco missionary one member of his church who last year gave fl for missions who admitted that he paid dnri.ig tin year at least 100 for tobacco and an other member who gave 3 for bible tract and mission purposes whose tobacco bill for the year was 200 ! mr barn'tz has mad a careful computation from the best available statistics which shows that the professing christians of america expend at least 25,000,000 annually for tobacco

the carolina watchman vol ix third series salisbury n c december 20 1877 no 9 â€¢ ti ui advocate . ., â€¢[-,.;,; prom bishop marvin s.i xxxiii , m m aa | a m tin barada ve approached the city that most re \ marl-able oasis in which it stands came â€¢ in full view it is about eighteen miles gquare aud i presume there is no greener g pol on tin face of the earth trees and gardens cover it with a verdure that is indescribable we saw it in the early â€ž,.,,;,," when it was at its freshest and spn â– -â€¢ a " â€¢ i the eitv stands at the foot of the moun tain i"s where the river barada - the haiia ot the scriptures enters the plain j hi is a small stream but rushing down . from ihe mountain as it does with great rapidity it delivers a large amount of â€žâ€ž;,!. so s as it eiiieigies front the ain il is tapped by canals which distribute the water in every direction ji the city . and through the plain 1 and below the city to the lagoon ,., n mile east in whicli it is lost x city could be belter supplied with wa ter the canals sometimes open sometimes running under archways be neath streets ind bouses traverse il in everv part in walking through the city often taken by sin prise coiniugupon l spot where the water rushes from under a wall and at cvei j turn you will liml foun tains in llie bazaar in tin market and in niches iu the walls of the bouses one mi of canals furnishes pure water for use while another serves fm drainage all the field and aniens in this oasis are protected by concrete fences such as i bave seen in south-western texas and made in the same way the gravel and earth air thrown together into a frame on the spot where the wall is to be made and luaien down solid with a mall upon leu spadefuls being thrown in ii is beaten down thus it becomes extremely hard ihe frame is then removed leav ingthe wall naked these fences or in ic properly wall are t wo feel . or more in thickness and live or six feel high so i fi.it in many eases the traveler on horse back can scarcely see the ground inside the mar the general beauty of the place n preatly being very clumsy and ob miiictiiig the view so hugely the population of damascus is consider ably over 100,000 but its buildings and bazaars are not what one expects there ia very lin uoa>al iu*eliit-.m-ture uoro the houses are low and nearly all rath ei shabby the bazaar coutrasts strong ly with that of cairo the one very cele brated mosque is in a poor style of an the street that is called straight is something ridiculed by superficial tourists ii i not in fact perfectly straight but is the only street in tbe city which holds a persistently straight course through from one side to the other a general course which is very direct and which the short offsets here and there do not interfere wiih it is eminently the straight sired of damascus in any city having such a system of streets or rather such a no hustom with one thoroughfare from side in side benl a lit i ie here and there but keeping a direct course throughout this very name would be most naturally given to it all the prophets and patriarchs are honored by the mussulmans you will find in damascus the mosque of the proph et solomon in fact you have to conic to this country to learn that abel and seth and almost every man whose name appears in the old testament were prophets i am told that the average arab mussulman thinks tbat abraham moses christ and mohammed all lived at the same i i me all being inspired prophets the greatest of whom was mohammed the dense ignorance even of men who seem to be intelligent in many respects in regard to religion is beyond belief there i a christian and a jewish quar \ ter of the city the christ i an population is much larger than i supposed some ol tlie leading business men an of this faith wc had been told that it would be worth while to see th inside of one or t wo dwell ings of wealthy mohammedan merchants im thai there would be no objection on thepartof the proprietors our guide 1 h. d plan and when the cash runs out in stead of going to the grocery and butcher stores and asking fot provisions on trust he goes directly to the lord he says that the children have always had their meals regularly although some limes as late as ten o'clock in the morning no means had been supplied for dinner iu such a case he tells us then we had a prayer meeting and god helped us before it was necessary to provide for dinner some times it so happened that now we had the means for dinner but we had not the means for supper then we had another prayer meeting together that cod would graciously be pleased to appear nu our be half and to help us and so he did tliese remarkable statements together with others just as extraordinary arc not from hearsay but may be found on page 2'a of his recently published addresses but lie puts a wet blanket ou the ambi tion of people who might desire to do their housekeeping in this apparently eco nomical manner by telling them that oth er christians must not imitate him in this respect and the that only way he succeeds in it is to lay his wants before the lord in the most implicit confidence that they will be relieved mr mttller says that the whole amount received by bim iu answer to prayer up to the 26th of may is 3,850 000 in cash exclusive ofa vast amount of provisions and material for clothing the expenses of conducting the various opera tions under his management are now about 620 a day a y sun blaine's recent sickness it is said has made bim look much older and greatly enfeebled him the united stares senate by a vote of 4h to 18 taken last thursday set apart to-day for the consideration of the bland silver bill those opposed to it generally favored postponing its consideration un til after the holiday recess those who wer iu favor of it were anxious to begin the discussion of it at once the vote therefore may be taken as indicative of the sense of the senate hill lamar and whyte were the only three southern senators who voted against the silver par ty ; that is in favor ofthe postponement ransom and merrimon were present and voted for early action the advocates of the bill are represented as being elated at the result of thursday's vote it cannot be denied that there is an apparent ma jority in the senate in favor ofthe meas ure the hope is indulged very freely among the silver men that a two-thirds majority will be obtained and that the bill finally passed over the threatened veto of the president the south and west are standing shoulder to shoulder in support of this bill against the nionied powers of the east should they fail of success with it their growing ascendancy in national affairs will have received its first strong check for our part we have little hope that a bill whicli does not meet the objections urged by tho president iu his message can obtain a two-thirds vote in both houses â€” hal news the russians are jubilent over the great victory at plevna and well they may be for it opens up to their gaze the beginning of an end they long have sought we doubt not that the success ofthe russian arms will eventually prove a great blessing to the world generally not even excepting the turks themselvs but in this the hour of their defeat our sympathies spontaneously go out to a people who have so long and so bravely fought against such great odds for all that men hold dear uufortunately the people of our own south-land know what are he feelings of men who having'fought to tho last ditch an then compelled to surren der to a hated foe they know what it is to stack their arms and furl their flags before a victorious enemy and march away disarmed helpless prisoners nu man who went through the agony of ap pomattox can think of plevna and the brave turks who sallied from its walls in a last desperate al tempt to cut through the russian lines without having his heart stirred to its lowest depths â€” ral c'ttjlt observer a i'<>m>iiiii.i>i.k"s wn â€¢â– '".â€¢â€¢ paktv cos tume.â€”according to the correspondence of the washington capital the wife of a new york banker appeared thi other eve ning at a party as capital the dress was covered on the skirt so as to make it ap pear one piece with one hundred nnd live hundred dollar bills the waist ami sieves were 1,000 lÂ«>uds sewed in uid her lingers and ears blazed with diamonds the tiara was said to have been worth ssi duo and the total value of the notes and diamonds on her person was 200,000 the pages carried her train and watched lest the jewels ami greenbacks should fall to the fioor there is a speck of war down in mis sissippi â€” not over the negro the outraged politicians will be sorry to hear but iu regard to some government timber stolen from the public lands the united states marshals liave been roughly handled by the woodsmen and a revenue cutter has been sent out with reinforcements from new orleans mormon propagandism â€” john taylor the new president of the mormon church has sent the follow ing order to a â€¢* brother living in nevada you are hereby or dered to start right away to the sandwich islands there to preach the gosplc of the everlasting faith hy order of tin twelve apostles training school â€” elie southern pres byterian church has established a school for the training of colored ministers at tuscaloosa alabama six candidates attended during the last session lhe gen eral synod of the reformed i dutch church has promised co-operation with the south ern presbyterians in sustaining this semi nary presbyterian fin presbyterian hoard of publication at richmond have mad an arrangement with the presbyterian publish ing company of st i mis to do their print ing for them except the papers earnest worker chiulren's friend and /.